At the age of 3 I can remember seeing this film...
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Added: February 21, 2008
At the age of 3 I can remember seeing this film at a theatre across the street from where I lived and this opening scene stuck in my mind as one of the most horrifying clips ever!
Now it is total camp, but fun!
PLOT: Beauty parlor owner in Los Angeles begins dreaming of a handsome but potentially dangerous man, and soon feels she can't discern her dreams from reality. I loved the whole ambiance of this picture--the fakey Universal Studio sets, the kitschy opening about the world of dreams and nightmares, the wedding sequence with the mannequins, Barbara Stanwyck in a perpetual dream state. Actually, Stanwyck is far too sane as an actress (and as a woman) to be playing this hysterical part, and Robert Taylor as her friend looks ghastly. Still, it's rather an eerie confection by the originator of "Psycho", engrossing and yet not one to be taken too seriously. It's camp, but at least it's the classy variety of camp.
Directed by William Castle
Writer: Robert Bloch (writer)
Release Date: December 1964
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